Mobility of Nitrogen‐15‐Labeled Nitrate and Sulfur‐34‐Labeled Sulfate during Snowmelt
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Abstract
The objective of this study was to investigate the winter dynamics of SO 4 2− and NO 3 − in a forested soil to better understand controls on these acidifying anions during snowmelt. In February 2004, a stable isotopic tracer solution with 93 atom% 34 S as H 2 34 SO 4 and 99 atom% 15 N as NH 4 15 NO 3 was applied to the snowpack at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire. The chemical and isotopic compositions of throughfall, snow, snowmelt, and forest floor leachates were monitored for 10 mo following the addition of the tracers. The 34 SO 4 2− and 15 NO 3 − tracer amounts in forest floor leachates were highest in the first fractions of meltwater and declined exponentially until returning to ambient levels in mid‐May. Isotopic mass balances indicated that SO 4 2− and NO 3 − were conservative in the snowpack, with tracer recoveries near 100%. In contrast, only 54 to 62% of the 34 SO 4 2− and 49 to 58% of the 15 NO 3 − were recovered in forest floor leachates, suggesting that much of the SO 4 2− and NO 3 − that infiltrated the forest floor during snowmelt was retained or transformed. Microbial biomass δ 15 N values in the forest floor remained low during snowmelt and the natural abundance values of δ 18 O–NO 3 − in forest floor leachates were indicative of an atmospheric rather than a microbial source. These results suggest that, in this study, microbial immobilization and subsequent mineralization and nitrification of snowpack NO 3 − was insignificant in the forest floor during snowmelt.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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